"Whatever we choose as option A, there is always a chorus, inside our own minds and outside of it, contending it would have been better if we had just gone with option B."

— Filipovic, Jill (b. 1983)


Date
August 24, 2017
Metaphor
"Whatever we choose as option A, there is always a chorus, inside our own minds and outside of it, contending it would have been better if we had just gone with option B."
Metaphor in Context
Whatever we choose as option A, there is always a chorus, inside our own minds and outside of it, contending it would have been better if we had just gone with option B.

So would it? If Mrs. Clinton had spun around and called Mr. Trump a creep, would she have effectively stopped his onstage harassment?
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Jill Filipovic, "Donald Was a Creep. Too Bad Hillary Couldn't Say It." The New York Times (August 24, 2017). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
08/25/2017

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.